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OftenBen  ·  953 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A New Company With a Wild Mission: Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth

I feel like it wouldn't be that difficult to provide a surrogate mother to a newly... hatched? De-podded? Unextincted mammoth.

Agreed on all other points.

More scientists and engineers need to devote some brain power to the ethics of the things they are asked to do. There is a difference between ethics education in the sciences as a continuing education requirement and as something that is enforced in more than letter.